Mechanism for feeding paper.



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MECHANISM FOR FEEDING PAPER.

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MECHANISM FOR FEEDING PAPER.

APPLICATION P I LED FEB. 8, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY B. COOLEY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN PAPER GOODS COMPANY, OF KENSINGTON, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

MECHANISM FOR FEED IN'G- PAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented Dec. 31, 1907.

Application filed February 8, 1905. Serial No. 244,740.

generally, and it is es ecially applicable to printing-presses, enve olp, bag and many other machines in whic aper is operated upon to produce various art1cles.

Primarily, the object of the invention is l e provision of improved feed-mechanism whic will detach a sheet from a ile, and

advance it to a machine of any des red kind- ,With which it may be employed.

"f A further object of the invention is the provision of improved feed-mechanism work-. mgon the suction principle, and operating to detach a'sheet from a pile of sheets, and to advance it to a machine in which it is utilized for any desired pur ose.

A further object of te invention is the provision of reciprocatory feed-devices operating to detach the lowermost sheet from a pile, as will be hereinafter explained.

A. further object of the invention is the provision of improved buffer-devices for engaging the end of the pile.

A further object of the invention is the provision of mechanisms for actuating, the

icker toward and from thefeed-rolls, and or continuously rotating said feed-rolls.

Other objects of the invention will be hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved feed-mechanism. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4, 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a front view, part ofthe frame being broken away. Fig. 6 is a partial section, taken on line 6, 6 of Fig. 1; and Figs. 7 and, 8are sectional views "corresponding to Figs. 3 and 4, but showing the parts in different positions. Fig. 9, heet i, is a side elevation ofa modiiication hereinafter described.

Like numerals designate similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 5 denotes in a general way framework of any posed of connected side-plates 5.

desired construction for supporting .the various parts of the machine, and. shown com- Secured to this framework by ooved brackets 6, into which it is slid is a road plate or table 7, slotted at 7 for purposes hereinafter stated, and rising from said table are posts 8, between which a pile of sheets 9 is placed, the forward end of said pile overlapping the end of the table, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, 4, 7 and 8.

Designated by 10 is the driving-shaft of the machine, said shaft being supported in boxes of the frame and carrying a pulley 11, or other instrumentality to which power may be applied. Gears 12, 12 are secured to shaft 10 between the side plates of the frame, and loosely sleeved on said shaft adjacent to is an arm 13. Mounted on studs 14, 14 of said arms are idlers 15, 15 in constant mesh with the gears 12, 12, and journaled on other studs 16, 16 carried by the arms are pinions 17 17, the latter meshin with gears on feedrollers hereinafter descri ed. After passing through the arms 13, 13 and securing the pinions 17, 17 thereto, the ends of the sthds 16, 16 are threaded into links 18, 18, the lat.- terhaving bushed hubs 19, 19 sleeved loosely upon an oscillatory suction-rod or shaft 20, said shaft serving to connect the links and to rock therein, as shown in Fig. 6. This shaft 20 is shown tubular for a portion of its length as at 21, although it ma be of pipe-form throughout, and is provi ed with ports 22, and surroundingsaid ports with a picker 23 having openings 24 communicating with the ports 22. Sleeves 25 and 26 are mounted on the shaft 20 between the picker 23 and the links 18, 18, and each sleeve is provided with a gear 25, 26, respectively, in mesh with the pinions 17 and 17 and with a roller 25, 26 respectively, as illustrated in Fig. 6.

Secured to shaft 10 is an eccentric 27 the strap of which is connected by a rod 28 with an arm 29 projecting from a rock-shaft 3O journaled in boxes of the frame. Rigid with said rock-shaft arearms 31, 32, which are gear 12 is an arm 13, and adjacent to gear 12' articulated at their free ends to links 33 and described. In these slides is journaled the parti-tubulargshaft 20, and a shaft 38 is mounted in boxes 39 fitted in slots 39 of the slides. Springs 40 bear against the boxes and the'inner sides of cap-plates 41 closing the ends of the slots in said slides. Pinions 42 and 43 rigid with said shaft 38, are in constant mesh with the gears 25, 26 of sleeves 25, 26,- and intermediate said pinions the shaft is provided with rolls 44, 45, alwa s bearing under yielding pressure against t e rolls 25 26 of said sleeves. A bar 46 is 'secured to the slides 35 and 36, and it affords a support for angle-levers 47 48, which arethrough the bar 46, and at their rear endsare ed to receive nuts 54, which act as three stops. These rods are connected at their forward ends to a buffer-plate 55, and are surrounded between said plate and the bar 46 each by a coiled spring 56, the stress of said spring tendmg normally to force the plate forward, so that it will yield when 1n the o eration of the devices it strikes the end of t e ile 9, and therefore, will act as a buffer for t at portion of the end of said pile located between the buifer-rods or pins 51.

Designated bfi 57 is a plate for aiding in separating the ottom sheet" from the pile and this plate is of wedge-shape and will hereinafter be termed the separator. At

its rear end the separator is widened and is slotted at 58 to receive screws 59 by which it is secured to the cross-bar 46. A thumbscrew 60 passes through a vertical flange 61, of said separator, is swiveled therein, and its threaded portion enters a nut in bar 46, thereby enabling the separator to be adjusted back and forth as desired, to locate it properl to Iperform its office.

Rigi wit the parti-tubular shaft 20 is a pinion 62, the teeth of which are in mesh with a rack 63 carried by an overhanginglate 64 secured to one of the side-frames 5.

bing 65 is connected to the end of shaft 20, as illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and this tubing communicates at its opposite extremity with the chamber of an exhaust pump 66, the piston-rod67 of which is driven y a wrist-pin 68 carried by a disk 69 rigid with the shaft 10, as usual.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 9-all the parts of the mechanism are the same as in the other views, with the exception of the separator for aiding in the seizure of the lowermost sheet from the pile. This separator in shop parlance is'known as the dagger, and its function is, as above stated, to assist emcee in the removal of the sheet, and to prevent more than one sheet from being seized by the icker. 5 1.

W enjga construction of the kind illustrated in Fig. 9 is employed the separator 57 shown in Fig. l and other figures is, of course, omitted. I

Rising from a side-plate of the machineframe is a bracket 70, and in a bearing 71 in the forward end of said bracket is journaled a rock-shaft 72. Rigid with the rock-shaft 72 is an arm 73, and in a bearing 74 at the free end of the arm is firmlysecured a stub 75 from which depends a separator or dagger 76, in the form of a curved blade. An

projects rearwardly therefrom, and to said arm is articulated a link 78, forked at 79 to straddle the driving-shaft 10. A roller 80 is mounted on a stud of the link, and said roller is in contact with the periphery of a cam 81 rigid With the driving-shaft. This cam is so shaped that when the picker 23 arrives beneath the pile, the link 78 will be actuated thereby rocking the short shaft 72, and carrying the dagger or separator 76 downward to co6perate with the picker in removing a sheet. As said dagger moves down its curved under surface will come into contact with the sheet seized by the icker, and cause it to be cleanly separated om the pile. From what has been stated, it will be seen that the separatorand picker move synchronously, that one aids the other in the sheet-separating operation, and that the separator as it moves in an arcuate ath lifts the pile away from the detached s eet. While particular mechanism is shown for actuating the swinging separator, the invention is not limited thereto, for other mechanical combinations may be employed as substitutes if desired.

In the illustrations given the feeding mechanism is shown arranged at a certain angle, but-it is distinctly to be understood spect for it may be otherwise located if de-' sired.

In the operation of the invention a ile tween the posts 8 thereof, and shaft 10 is set in motion.

In Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 the mechanism isshown at the inception of its feeding movement, the picker 23 being beneath the boticker being in a vertiriyin of sheets is placed .on the table 7 and ethe drivingarm 77 is clamped to the rock-shaft 71, and

I tom sheet of the overhanging end of the pile,

-shaft 10 rotates,

110 that the invention is not limited in this re- I slides 35 and 36 are simultaneously actuated to force the buffer-rods 51 and the buffer-' plate 55 against the end of the pile, and to carry the separator 57 between the lower sheet and the remainder of the pile. As this takes place the pinions 14, 14v roll over the the pump in the tube 65 and hollow picker shaft 20, and that when the picker is in-the position represented in Fig. 4 it will attract the lower sheet of the pile. As the slides move inward the pinion 62 of picker-shaft 20 engages the fixed rack 63, and at the limit of their stroke, saidpicker will be rocked to the position illustrated in Fig. 8, and the end of the sheet carried by said picker will be inserted between the continuously and rapidly-- rotating rollers 25 26 44 and 45, and will be fed by them to the machine with which the improved mechanism is in use. When the sheet is grasped by the rollers the separator 57 aids in stripping it from the ile and in guiding it as it is advanced bysair rollers.

The continuously driven feed-rollers constitute an important feature of the invention, and the arrangement of the feed-mechanism as a whole is compact, of simple construction, and is reliable in operation.

While a suction-picker is shown for detaching'and feeding the sheets from the bottom of the pile, the invention is not'limited thereto, for by slight modifications the mechanism may be arranged to feed from the top of the pile; nor is the invention lim. ited to the precise arrangement of operating mechanism shown and described, for various modifications rhay be made that will be within the purview thereof. So too, the form of the picker may be varied, and the mechanism may be arranged in vertical,

horizontal or other desired positions without departure from the invention. Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 4 1. The combination, with a support for a pile of sheets, of a picker movable beneath the pile, and adapted to seize the lower sheet thereof; feed re s sleeved on the ickershaft; means for driving said feed-r01 s; and means 006 crating with said feed-rolls to seizlp and a vance the sheet delivered by the 10 er. p 2. The combination, with a support for a pile of sheets, of a pneumatic picker adapted to seize a sheet from said pile; a rotary shaft carrying the picker; feedrolls sleeved on the icker-shai't for advancing the sheet deivered by the picker; complemental feedrolls; and means for continuously rotating all of said feed-rolls. 3. The combination, with a support com posed of a pair of slides, of means for simultaneously actuating'the slides; feed -rolls also movable With thesupport, and upon the shaft of "which two of tne feed-rolls are sleeved; and means for actuating said picker to cause it to detach a sheetfrom the pile, and deliver said sheet to the'feed-rolls.

5. The combination, with a stationary table for receiving a pile of sheets, of a movable support, spring-controlled levers movable with the support; and buffers carried by said levers, and adapted toengage theend of. 1

the pile;

6*. The combination, with a-table for-receiving a pile'of sheets, ,ofa .reciprocatory support; a pair of 'angle levers pivoted thereto; a spring connecting the rear armsof said levers; and buffers carried by the other arms of said levers, and adapted to engage the end of the pile.

7. The combination, with a table for supporting a pile of sheets, of a series of bufi'ers means for reciprocating said'bufliers toward and fromthe table; a device for detaching a sheet from the pile carried by. said .means; and feed inechanism cooperating with said device and also carried by said means. i

8. The combination, with a stationary table for supporting a pile of sheets, of a series of'buifers; a cross baron which the bufiersare mounted; a air.ofslides connected by thebross-bar or simultaneously reciproc'atingfsaid buffers; a picker carried by said connected" slides for detaching a sheet from 'th'epile; means for actuating the icker; and meansgfor feeding the. sheet de-' ivered by the-picker. j

9. The'conibination, with a table for receiving a pileiofg'sheets, .of a shaft, a reciprocatory support for'saidshaft; means for actuating said shaft'gvfeedrolls sleeved upon the shaft means :foridriving said feed-rolls; a pickericarriedyby-theushaft between the feed-rolls; and means cooperating with said feedrolls for advancinga sheet delivered by the picker;

10. The combination, with table for. re-

ceiving a pile of sheets, of afpioker; a shaft by which the picker is carried; sleeves having feed-rolls mounted on the picker-shaft; a drivingeshaft; gearing-actuated'by the means for actuating said picker-shaft to; cause. the picker to detach a sheetfrom the pile, and convey it to the feed-rolls.

11. combination, with a support, and

driving-shaft for rotating the 'sleeves; a

"shaftfor reciprocating'the picker-shaft: and

one of the feed-rol shafts; means for actuating said picker to remove material from the table and deliver it to said feed-rolls; and

gearing for driving said feed-rolls.

13. The combination, Witha table upon which a pile of sheets is placed, of pivoted angle-levers; a spring connecting the outer arms of said levers; bufier-pins carried by the other arms of said levers; a separator; a spring-actuated bufier-plate a reciprocatorymeans for removing a sheet from the ile.

- 14. The combination, with a table or receiving a pile of sheets, of a support; a shaft carried by the support; a icker on the shaft; picker; feed-rolls loose on the shaft; .comple ental feed-rolls carried by the support; lin s connected to the support; a driving-shaft; arms sleeved on said driving-shaft; gearin carried by the arms; gearing on the feed-r01 s driven by the gearing of the arms; and means actuated by the driving-shaft for reciprocating the links.

15. The combination, with a table for receivin a pile of sheets, said table being slotte of a picker; feed-rolls on the pickershaft; reciprocatory means for su porting the picker-shaft; gears for drivin t e feedrolls, said gears moving in the acts of-the table; and means cooperatin with said feedroll; for advancing a sheet elivered .by the 10 er. 16. The combination, with a table for receiving a pile of sheets, of slides movable on the frame; a driving-shaft; an eccentric on said driving-shaft; a rock-shaft actuated by the eccentric; arms carried by the rock-shaft, and connected to the slides; sheet-detaching and feeding-mechanisms carried by the slides; and means for operating said mech-I anisms. I

17. The combination, with a table, of a suction-device; a sliding support for said device; means for reciprocating said'sup ort; means for rockin said suction-device; cede mechanism to which material from the table is delivered by-the suction-device; means for rotating said. feed-mechanism; asheet-separator, movable in synchronistn with said support; and a buffer carried by said support.

18. The combination, with framework, of slides mounted thereon feed and suction-devices movable with the slides; a driving-.

haft; arms sleeved on said driving-shaft,

gears on the driving-shaft; a series of gears carried by the arms, and serving to drive the feed-devices; a rock-shaft; means for actuating said roclcshaft; arms projecting from the the slides; gearsfor connecting said feedrolls; a driving-shaft; arms sleeved on said driving-shaft ;gears on the arms and serving to drive the feed-rolls;.gearing or actuating said ears ing-s aft for reci rocating the slides.

20. Feed mecl i anism comprising a shaft having a bore and a port communicating with said bore; a picker carried b said, shaft, and also having a port; sleeves oose on the shaft, and each havin a roll-surface and a gear surface; a feed-roll shaft having gears in mesh with the gear-surfaces of the sleeves; device by which said parts are carried; and

means for rotating the sleeves; and means for actuating the'picker-shaft, the arts being combined substantially as an for the purpose specified.

21. The combination, with a table, of a pair of slides; means for reciprocating said slides a cross-bar connecting said s ides; -yielding buffers carried by the cross-bar; a separator means foradjusting said separator and means actuated by the driv and feed-mechanism su ported by the slides.

22. In mechanism 0 the class described, the combination, with a table for supporting a pile of sheets, of feed-rolls having gears; a feed-roll. shaft :having surfaces in engage- 'ment with the feed-rolls; a picker-shaft; a'

picker; a driving-shaft; arms sleeved on the driving-shaft; gears loosely mounted on studs of the arms, and a pair of which engage the gears of the feed-r0 ls; ears onthe drivingshaft in engagement wit another pair of the gears carried b the armsylinks connecting the arms with t e'picker-shaft; a rock-shaft;

slides carrying the picker-shaft and the feed,- roll shaft; arms projecting from the rockshaft; links connecting said arms with the sligpts; and gearing for actuating the pickers 23. The combination, with a table for supporting a pile of Sheets, of slides; means for simultaneously reci rocatingthe slides; a tubu1ar'shaft1carrie b the slides; a picker communicating with t e bore of said shaft; a suction-conduit connected to the shaft; a pinion carried by the shaft; a rack with on the tubular shaft, and to which a sheet is delivered by the picker; complemental feed- .rolls; and means'for rotating the feed-rolls.

24. The-combination, with a support fora pileof sheets, of means for detaching a sheet out the pp recipro'catory support composed of a pair of connected slides c said means; a separator movable in an arcuate path, and cooperating with the sheet dewhich the pinion engages; feed-rolls sleeved taching means; mechanism for actuating said separator; and a reciprocatory su port.

25. The combination, With a su port for a pile of sheets, of a pneumatic picEer for detaching a sheet from the pile; means for actuating the picker; a reciprocatory support,

bufler carried by the composed of a pair of connected slides carrymg said picker; a swingin separator cooperatlng with the picker; an continuously-actingfeed-mechanism to which'the detached sheet is lelivered by the picker.

26. The-combination, with a table for receiving a pile of sheets, of an oscillatory pneumatic picker-for detaching a sheet from the pile; a reciprocatory support for carrying said picker; a swinging separator; a cam; connections between the cam and separator, and continuously-acting feed-rolls, to' which the sheet is delivered by the picker.

27. In sheet-feeding mechanism, the combination, with a pneumatic picker and-with means for actuating the same, of a reoiprocatory support for the picker; a swinging separator movable synchronously with the picker;

a link, and connections for actuating said separator; means for operating the link; and continuously-driven feed-rolls to which the sheet is delivered.

28. In sheet-feeding mechanism, the combination, with a pneumatic picker, of a reci rocatory support for said picker; a roc shaft; an arm rigid with said rock-shaft; a

separator carried by the arm, and cooperating with the wicker to remove'a sheet from a pile; a link connected to the rock-shaft; a cam for actuating said link; and feed-rolls to which the sheet is delivered. t

' driven feed-rolls,

said picker.

29. In feed-mechanism, the combination, with means for. detaching a sheet from a pile, of a reciprocatory support for said means; a

separator; an arm to which the separator is attached; a rock-shaft journaled in a bearin of the frame,vand carrying the arm; a secon arm; a link articulated to said second arm; means for actuating thelink; and continuously-driven feed rolls to which the sheet is delivered.

30. The combin'atiomwith continuouslyand with means for actuating said rolls; of a shaft upon which'a pair of the rolls is sleeved; 'a rotary,picker.located between the rolls; and means for actuating with pairs of feedof a shaft upon which said rolls are 31. The combination, rolls,

plemental feed-roll; a rotary neumatic picker located between the feedro ls; means for actuatin said Iriicl'rer; and a table for supporting a pile of s eets. 32. The combination, with a support for a pile of sheets; of a pickerlfor detaching the HENRY B. COQLEY.

Witnesses:

H. HAYWOOD, 'M. Rmowoon.

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